Top news stories from 2003
Top stories -- December 31, 2003
West Marin escapes the worst of a typhoon
A burlgar-vandal spree on Christmas
IPUD director quits and elopes
Two miss joining 'Lagoon club
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Here comes 2004Top stories -- December 24, 2003
Ex-employee of Lucasfilm sentenced to jail
IPUD fighting to fly UN flag
Bolinas utility drops fight over cafe sign
Nonprofit may trot turkeys from W. Marin
Pt. Reyes artist Saijo, 81, son of immigrants, dies
West Marin Pharmacy's former owner Ruder dies
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Two ‘minor’ deathsTop stories -- December 18, 2003
Tip from Topeka locates Tomales High's stolen computer
UN flag flap leads to Inverness suit
Mosquito-control district proposes annexing coast
Bolinas' Aspasia Downey, 82, dies of natural causes
Former publisher Graeser of Inverness dies at 88
Stinson's John Jones, lagoon activist, dies at 89
Sparsely, Sage and Timely It’s a wild lifeTop stories -- December 11, 2003
Coast Commission OKs Nick's Cove
New woodstove law being called overkill
Supes drop West Marin from tourism district
Bolinas farmer gets OK to remove his dikes
Committee for Bo Lagoon hits crossroads at confab
Former Inverness teacher Anna Bruckman dies at 93
Educator & former nun Mary Eleanor Gaffney dies
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Roads to nowhereTop stories -- December 4, 2003
Tomales sewer work prevents catastrophe
Environmentalists rap new home for salmon
KWMR to relocate antenna
Parks mull amount of ranching in future
Kinsey to seek another term
Programs encourage & discourage wood fires
Muir Beach quilters still crafty after 30 years
Sparsely, Sage and Timely More mirth to dispel the gloomTop stories -- November 26, 2003
Non-native turkeys worry Fish & Game
Bolinas asks county aid in handling town drunks
Car-deer collisions up here & rest of US
Vandals hit Pt. Reyes preschool
BPUD's retiring Kayfetz gets kudos from past foes
Sonny Bellman, 90, an Inverness native
Ruth Colby, 98, a W. Marin naturalist
Sparsely, Sage and Timely 25 years after the rattler in the mailboxTop stories -- November 20, 2003
500 attend funeral for W. Marin School pupils
Kidnapper admits guilt but pleas 'not guilty'
Tomales High outshines E. Marin schools
Hornets attack Stinson runners
Muir & Stinson again rap parks' transportation plan
Famed Inverness artist Gordon Onslow Ford dies
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Staying light in the darknessTop stories -- November 13, 2003
Pt. Reyes Station car crash kills two sisters
Services slated for crash victims
Alleged kidnapper leads cops on chase up coast
Environmentalists defend salmon rights
RCD proposed new plan for ranchworker housing
RodoniTop stories -- November 6, 2003
Oldtimers Sloan, Amoroso & Rodoni win
Muir & Stinson decry park transit plans
Nicasio embezzler gets one year in county jail
Computer theft at Tomales High
Hal Airey, 80, native to Stinson
Monica Foster, 97, a Point Reyes activist
Martha Glessing, 65, simply lived "in the now"Sparsely, Sage and Timely Publishing police logsTop stories -- October 30, 2003
Two days of fires in Nicasio
Plans to limit drives to Stinson & Muir
Students here above average on tests
Science v. government flap about bay grows
Trails to be completed in French Ranch
BPUD candidates give vision for town
Here are The Light’s endorsements for Tuesday’s electionTop stories -- October 23, 2003
Bishop suspect claims insanity
Utility election issues in Bolinas
Lagunitas candidate says school board insensitive
Ruth Paige, 80, talkative, friendly
Helen Pederson, 87, Woodacre's 'can do' woman
Marshall Plan official dies at 84
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Housekeeping, not grandstanding & staffing needs the attention, SteveTop stories -- October 16, 2003
Park service visits tragedy on Hamlet
Ex-supe Gary Giacomini to help disburse Buck funds
Vandalism slows but ... cops need witnesses
Protecting Valley kids from sex on net
Stinson may be first town to try single-stream recycling
Muir home wins OK despite neighbors
Supes vote to allow big house in Nicasio
Rancher Bill Crayne, 55, loved by all in Tomales
Sparsely, Sage and Timely The mumsy of the recallTop stories -- October 9, 2003
'Car Clouters' go on a coastal rampage
Supe rules out garbage-dropoff facility
Rabid bat found at Bolinas School
Valley water rates to increase
League champion Point Reyes Venados
John Dettner, 63, a kind attorneyMike Zigenis, 79, craftsman, father
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Theater of the Absurd
Top stories -- October 2, 2003
County increases funds to remove sick oaks
Proposed ban on woodstoves in Valley
New firehouse, clinic proposed in Bo
Water rate hike set for Valley
Deep-sea discoveries at Cordell Bank
Marine sanctuaries got start in 1970s
Inverness' Durrie Ironman for ages
Comforting the Afflicted & Afflicting the Comfortable -The grass is greener
Top stories -- September 25, 2003
Polls in Bolinas may close for good
Tomales High football star only survivor in car wreck
Tax to reduce West Marin traffic
Marshall Tavern in danger of falling into Bay
Stinson Beach gives county control of new village green
New culvert project on Bolinas' Big Mesa
Comforting the Afflicted & Afflicting the Comfortable - A zucchini word problem
Top stories -- September 18, 2003
Sheriff asked to stop youth vandalism
Marshall septic tanks not pollution culprits
Parcel tax vote in Bolinas-Stinson
Injured Bolinas man goes home
Buck grant for Nicasio artist
Judge William Orrick, 87, a Stinson Beach pundit
Comforting the Afflicted & Afflicting the Comfortable - Sewered again
Top stories -- September 11, 2003
Grant to fix ranchworker homes misses cut
Injured Bolinas man flies home
Koschetz, 85, met love in Olema
Jerry McClellan, 67, a master of all trades
Sparsely, Sage and Timely A favorite poet dies
Top stories -- September 4, 2003
Multi-million-dollar changes for Shoreline
BPUD blames risk on landowner and county
No Patriot Act for Stinson
A documentary film, auction at Box show
Women in Business
Dr. Mary Whitney, an understanding vet
Duckdog Design beats dot.com blues
Bolinas realtors happy in small townRobert Coffin, 77, lived for Stinson
Sparsely, Sage and Timely An annex for all seasons
Top stories -- August 28, 2003
Bolinas man says fall caused injuries
County compensates for tax loss with new fees
Tomales sewer & park district's finances good
Sonoma county using DNA testing at beach
A $5 million network of sewers for Marshall
Marshall sewer network faces several hurdles
No science for sewer in Marshall
Labor Day fun in West Marin
Weekender Spenger, 88, ran famous fish grotto
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Grantsmanship trumps science
Top stories -- August 21, 2003
More distress strikes injured Bolinas man's kin
Flowers block Lucas' tunnel
Planners endorse new 2nd-unit rules
Stinson residents ask for more parking controls
Planetwalker Francis to share stories of Cuba
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Personal questions
Top stories -- August 14, 2003
Injured Bolinas man becomes more mobile
Kin in Guatemala miss injured Bolinas man (Photographer's Notebook)
SNAFU at Civic Center kicks off election season
Better drainage but no rate hikes in BPUD budget
Valley parents rally behind teacher Riley
Nicasio grapegrower holds historic trestle
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Prominent Chinese writer little known in her West Marin community
Top stories -- August 7, 2003
Injured Bolinas man's kin struggling in poverty
A flap over learning source of bay e. coli
Selina Bishop murderer admits she's guilty
Stinson Cafe cooperates with water board on septic
Inverness' Burley, 87, built boat-shaped cabin
Point Reyes' Atwood, 81 patient father and teacher
Sparsely, Sage and Timely My spur-of-the-moment wedding
Top stories --July 31, 2003
Bolinas man wakes from coma
How gas firm's troubles led to unexpected bills
Attack in park on woman
Bunch of politicos here not yet on ballot
Planners split on Hyatt-family home
Wine glut hurting grape growers here
Mobile chickens don't fly the coop
Sailor Pete Halley, 47, a man that was "too kind"
Weekender Nora Plant, 81, loved spring in Inverness
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Politics: the good, the bad, & the ugly
Top stories --July 24, 2003
Coast Guard changes command in Pt. Reyes
Bolinas-Stinson trustees propose tax
Bolinas victim off life support
Marshall landowners thwarted by gap in plans
A lot of confabulation muddles Valley planners
Hyatt family plans compound
Stinson grand dame Barbara Chevalier dies
Inverness artist Wright recalled as a 'gentleman'
Sparsely, Sage and Timely The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together
Top stories --July 17, 2003
North Marin to let EAH pay for new Pt. Reyes main
Bolinas man to be taken off life support
Bolinas utility to fix Big Mesa drainage
Firm to evaluate Bolinas path route
Valley recycling in trouble
Pt. Reyes merchant launches new boutique
Organic farmers here need many talents
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Latitude, civilization, & NIMBYism
Top stories --July 10, 2003
Bolinas man found near death in bushes
Raucous July 4 in West Marin
Supes ease limitations on rancher's enterprises
Senior housing plan in Pt. Reyes Station dies
West Marin boarders dominate contest
Rancher Straus, 88, dies' Marshall family patriarch
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyVeteran of two wars says US entered neither merely because of ‘claims’
Top stories --July 3, 2003
Vandal and burglar case arrests begin
Kayfetz won't seek reelection to BPUD
Disabled woman kept off sewer
Highway 1 repair finishing early
Snake bites woman in Valley
Skatepark site in Bolinas unsure
San Geronimo student overcomes gangs, lupus
Dillon's Nadine George, 74, dies; loved travel
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyA passion for community newspapering
Top stories --June 26, 2003
Missing bear returns to Dumpsters here
Grassfire spares Pt. Reyes house
Inmate crews fight Heart's Desire fire
Deputy tried to shoot motorist a 4th time
Inverness to fly UN flag on green
Poet Harris-Kunz, 53, dies of heart attack
Kay Holbrook, 90, dies; activist passes peacefully
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyThe fire this time
Top stories --June 19, 2003
Supes propose more business on ranches
Private gardening flap in Muir public park
Shoreline to raise staff pay by 3 percent
Paradise Ranch Estates road tax proposed
Sparsely, Sage and Timely‘Exit, pursued by a bear’
Top stories --June 12, 2003
Parade results from Western Weekend
61-year-old-woman wins 93rd Dipsea
White's Hill Bridge opens as Brown Bridge
Bolinas Stinson won't try for new tax vote now
Valley planner to fight Marin Municipal tank
Tomales sewer board may end accordian size
A frustrated man's Alzheimer's hoax
Swim from Muir saves woman
William Beebe, 84, to be buried in his boots
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyMy advice to the Democratic Party
Top stories --June 5, 2003
More & more bear sightings on coast here
Motorist shot thrice was attempting suicide
Bolinas-Stinson school tax fails
Concrete in creek nearly kills "Pericles"
Valley planners skeptical of water tank
Muir raises charge for water
Sis Arndt, 83, dies; pioneer environmentalist
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyThe evolution of Western Weekend
Western Weekend June 7 & 8, 2003, Point Reyes Station
Western Weekend Parade Marshals
Point Reyes 4-H'er raises show horses
Inverness heifer raised on historic ranch
Valley Ford teen raises special rabbits
Top stories -- May 29, 2003
First bear in a century seen on Point Reyes
Pottery firm owner skips town owing thousands
IPUD may be 1st utility in US against Patriot Act
Station House Cafe burglarized
A Bolinas-Stinson tax vote
Federal funds help Shoreline
Organist Lois Parks retires after 43 years
Guest Column - Monte Rio should learn from Bolinas
Martin Myman, 55, dies, a low-key attorney
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyJohn Francis' cigar
Top stories -- May 22, 2003
Supes to fight Miwok's casino
Congress lets park advisor terms expire
RCD seeks to build ranchworker homes
Muir Beach tells family not to plant in park
Pony club show in Bolinas
Attorney Martin Myman dies unexpectedly
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyConfusion in West Marin
Top stories -- May 15, 2003
Stampede leads to cows' deaths
Burglars steal school's office computers
Bolinas-Stinson trustees slash staffing
Bard at Stinson opening in peril
The Israeli-Palestinian dispute
Jack de Benedictis, 82, a West Marin scholar
Frank Pepper, 89, family founded Bolinas
Top stories -- May 8, 2003
After heroic flights, birds dying from litter
Why Miwok can build casino
Supes approve project to restore Nick's Cove
Car hits cyclists in Woodacre
West Marin & Tomales Elementaries' asbestos
Manka's restaurant get two prestigios awards
Former builder of boats in Marshall dies at 75
Horace Maggetti, Jr., 75, part of West Marin legacy
Poncia, a dairy rancher, dies on 93rd birthday
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyA statistical look at West Marin
Top stories -- May 1, 2003
Murky vision in Muir to eliminate parking
County to head planning to restore Bolinas Lagoon
Inverness delays firehouse vote
State budget threatens W. Marin mental patients
Stinson garden blooms despite fire and storms
Emma Frank, 89, young-at-heart redhead
From model to Realtor, Irene Mitchell loved people
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyFrom treasure hunting, pornography, Uzis, and the EAC to mobilehomes
Top stories -- April 24, 2003
Peace demonstrators curse bicyclists
Coast Miwok Indians to build casino
Valley fire razes shelter
Stinson water board still plan to raise fees
Willis Evans, 84, spent life as conservation pioneer
Roy Gillman, 74, worked with hands and heart
Ada Lind, 94, leaves legacy as republican
Tom Norton, 90, activist and poet
Wayne Parks, 55, lived and worked for ag roots
Lanny Pinola, 64, helped set standard for rangers
Sparsely, Sage and Timely West Marin’s in global mainstream
Top stories -- April 17, 2003
Waterspout touches land at Stinson Beach
Youth in 3 towns trying to get skateparks
Blown transformer sparks blackout in the Valley
Well-dressed corpse washes in at Muir Beach
Stinson eyeing water-rate rise
Valley Planning Group raps Barnabe-home plan
Stephen Marvin, 80, beloved teacher, historian
Sparsely, Sage and Timely The ‘Brainiac Journal’
Top stories -- April 10, 2003
PG&E pulling workers out of West Marin
County, RCD may build ranchworker homes
Suspect arrested in Woodacre robbery case
Stinson polluting site revealed
West Marin ranchers increasingly diversify
Horace Edrington, 93, lived as rancher, musician
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Another diplomatic command
Top stories -- April 3, 2003
150 march for peace in Point Reyes station
Feds' delay may have led to plant's extinction
Bolinas fire department coming of age
Dramatic crash near Muir Beach
Woodacre grocer disarms robber
Down by the Bay: Bradleys in the Bay
Homeward Bound: Peace etiquette
Sparsely, Sage and Timely A nonagenarian correspondent in South Carolina
Top stories -- March 27, 2003
Ask State Farm to help you remove water tanks
Bolinas-Stinson trustees put tax to vote
Students leave classes to protest war
La guerra en los medios
Duane Baker, 47, loved being a father and cars
Vernie Lyons, 90, famous for growing orchids
N.W. Vaughan loved Pt. Reyes
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Thoughts of war while driving through the San Geronimo Valley
Top stories -- March 20, 2003
Davis budget threatens schools in West Marin
Downtown Inverness to get median
Supes buy land for Valley bridge
Stinson to learn where bacteria enters creek
Students clean up Papermill Creek
New shop lives up to name
Joe Kostrubanic, 77, had ranching in his blood
Top stories -- March 13, 2003
Little consensus surfaces on the bay
Despite activist critics planners OK Valley home
Court to probe sanity of driver shot thrice
Lagunitas trustees revamp hiring system
Romeo Sartori, 71, led big life as head of family
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Stop grandstanding & get back to work
Top stories -- March 6, 2003
Governor threatens protections of open space
West Marin gets funds to improve fire safety
Skateboarding park proposed in Valley
Olema landowner plans four dwellings
Designer Kate Hilton, 57, had a 'touch of beauty'
Otremba, 60, gave all to gardens, sense of humor
Women in Business:
Counseling practice to focus on nature
Kayak company owner combines work & nature
Olema's Beulah Gallery shows the non-traditional
Sparsely, Sage and Timely A West Marin dinner conversation
Top stories -- February 27, 2003
Nick's Cove project wins planner's OK
Tax proposed on inns to fund tourist promos
Lagunitas trustees vote to cut faculty
Suspect shot by deputy said not to be on drugs
Big home in Marshall heads to coastal panel
Rumor of sewage spill at French Ranch wrong
Three-war vet Powell, lived life to serve country
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Tomales Bay: ‘pristine’ or ‘impaired’?
Top stories -- February 20, 2003
Teen trip to Stinson ends in destruction
Drake's 'plate of brasse' proven a hoax
Pt. Reyes workshop set on profitable niche farms
Rancher found dead in home
Ex-resident of Inverness missing in Baja
Nicasio's Bill Spencer, 73, led life of adventure
Stinson's Rokusek remembered for 'spirit'
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Stinson Beach, crime, and tragedy
Top stories -- February 13, 2003
Deputy in Stinson shoots motorist thrice
CHP testimony flawed, Stinson worker freed
Hyatt hotel family eyeing Nicasio ranch
Stinson driver clinging to life
Six Lagunitas faculty protest seniority lists
Stinson bicyclist, later paraplegic, dies
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Nature, beauty, and cruelty in the raw
Top stories -- February 6, 2003
Nick's Cove vital to Tomales & Marshall
Affordable housing in Pt. Reyes on schedule
Stinson drug raid leads to three arrests
Bolinas Lagoon meeting sparks debate and fury
Shopkeepers in Valley proud
Sparsely, Sage and Timely Granddaughter of razed-teahouse owner recalls what the Park Service destroyed
Top stories -- January 30, 2003
Davis budget threat to Lagunitas School
Tam State Park blazing trail to controversy
Face of downtown Inverness now changing
Season slow and prices low for herring fishermen
Stinson survival actor says fear not a factor
GGNRA razes old teahouse
Former Inverness resident Emogene Kuhn dies at 81
Inverness Park's Pelton, retired contractor, dies
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyEnvironmental sinecures
Top stories -- January 23, 2003
County sets hearing on Nick's Cove plan
Margot Doss' life of adventure
Valleyite's show of history he saw
Stinson's federal beach to get new restrooms
Saga continues at home of Northwest Marin thief
Hartwell, 50, dies of cancer
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyRemembering Margot Patterson Doss
Top stories -- January 16, 2003
Davis budget would clobber schools here
Northwest Marin man confesses to many thefts
4th graders protest in Valley
Margot Doss of Bolinas, conservation giant, dies
Nicasio fire captain Jeffrey Stein dies at 57
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyBelated reply to a reader's complaint
Top stories -- January 9, 2003
Point Reyes' name now 400 years old
Miwok tribe gets recognized
Inverness nurse drafts healthcare-reform bill
Work not done on White's Hill
Drake expert Aker dies at 82
Inverness lawyer Studdert dies
Sparsely, Sage and TimelyThey'll be happy to know that as you saw me go I was singing this song
Top stories -- January 2, 2003
Nude women protest war again; men also demonstrate
More hurricane-force gusts here
Valleyite jailed in burglary case
Stinson swim ends in peril
Radio KWMR expands to Bolinas and Stinson
Sparsely, Sage and Timely The ‘unconstitutional’ protocol of the California Coastal Commission
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